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The Provisional Committee for Encouragement of Industr y and Reduction of Poor ' s Rates , desires to communicate to its friends universally , that the intellig * ence received on the su-bject of the additional cultivation of land is highly gratifying . The certain consequent
advantage of supplying , small portions to the industrious poor , cannot fail of securing the same happy effects which have been hitherto produced in their circumstances and habits , _ and also on the rising race : those efforts , now making" iii the Metropolis ,
it is anticipated , must also be crowned with success , and exhibit an example to large and populous places generally , near to which waste lands might be obtained , and prove an eminent source of employment . An Act was passed in the late Session of Parliament to ?* Amend the Laws for
the Relief of the Poor , " by which parishes are authorized to take land for the purpose of employment . And letting is most earnestly impressed on general notice and adoption , and noblemen , magistrates and patriotic characters universally , are implored thus to render a most important service to their country . The Provisional Committee still desires to receive from the
patriotic and reflecting generally , the instances of success of those views , as well as details of whatever mode of employment not interfering * wijth existing occupations , also on the subject of the most eligible means of preventing the unhappy consequences and heftvy expenses attendant on removals of parochial poor .
Also , the Committee having received satisfactory proof of the superior productions of land cultivated by the spade , instead of the plough , ¥ wiII be thankful for any correct statements of the quantity of
wheat , or other grain , or of potatoes , ot other roots , obtained from any given quantity of land ^ having in vj ^ w the encouragement of this beneficial employment for the poor -
The Provisional Committee tfre conviAced thatj by the means above adverted tor , rb jprotfiotinfg th <* industry , cO * nf 6 rte and cotidrtot of our pojmftitiort , tranquillity trill
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Custom-rHoUse and Excise Oaths . Copy of the Memorial to the JLords Commissioners of the Treasury , from the Merchants of Liverpool .
That your Memorialists have Ion ** viewed with sentiments of deep concern , the system of oaths required in . the performance of the business of the Customs and Excise , from a conviction that it is immoral in its tendency , injurious in its operation , and inefficient in its result .
That it is immoral in its tendency from the great frequency and levity with which the name of the t ) eity and the Scriptures are brought forward upon occasions comparatively insignificant . That it is injurious in its operation , from the delay opposed to business , from the unnecessary
exposure to which some of the oaths lead , from the conviction which the person who receives and the person who makes them must often feel of their ignorance of the facts which they are intended to substantiate , and from their consequent tendency to impair the reverence for the sanctity of
an appeal which is the foundation of confidence in the judicial institutions of the country . That they are inefficient fn their result , since they become , from the frequency and indifference with wTiich they
are taken ,, a mere form , and which your Memorialists humbly conceive to be the impression of the Leg-islatwre themselves , from their requiring penal bonds , to the non-performance of which alone , any punishment has hitherto been attached .
Your Memorialists beg- leave , in confirmation of their statements , to annex remarks upon a few of the oaths , and , under a strong * conviction of the immorality , injurious operation , and inefficiency
of the system , respectfully but earnestly to intreat your Lordships to dirfect its revision , and to grant your Memorialists such relief in the premises as th £ wisdom of-your Lordships may suggest :
The master of a vessel swears to tht report of his cargo iii wards , notwithstanding ^ hich fortn , an officer of the Customs is placed on board the vessel from the period of the report , and a superior officer attends t 6 the discharge of the yesset , while ancither ex&toiries her previous to htfr * ntry owtMtrtfs ; and # U the * e offit # / % htfvtf the pttwetf of trizntc at tfity
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^ 46 Intelligence * —Custom HouH and Excise Oaths .
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to . be attached to unbelief or misbelief , that such a treatment of unbelievers is inconsistent with the principles of natural right and of religious , liberty , that truth suffers by it , and that it is especially adverse to the mild and generous spirit of the Founder jot our faith .
Mr . Carlile ' s mode of defence was not conciliating * either to the public , the Court , or the Jury ; but we hope , for the honour of Christianity , which is unbecomingly appealed to in these prosecutions , there will appear nothing vindictive in the sentences of the Court .
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result , the tone of British Society be raised on the most firm and stable basis , and the happiness , security and prosperity of the nation , under Diviire Providence , be teasfcuicfdf ^ For the Committee , BENJAMIN WILLS , _ Hon . Sec . King ' s Head , Poultry . Sept . 1819 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/58/
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